The Country

I wrote this poem while I was sitting on an old run-down tractor in the wide open country listening the sounds of the outside world.

Sing for the outside,the country is waiting in a peaceful eye; watching, listening, keeps your secret. Sing for the birds, sing for the trees, listen to the wind, watch the sky move; let the country take you there. It will always.

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